Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Alexa Lavoie reports from London while Free Speech Union challenges UK ban

00:00:00.160 Hello, my friends. What a big show today. I talked a little bit more about my ban from

00:00:04.940 the United Kingdom, and I'm glad to say I found allies today, too. Plus, our friend Alexa

00:00:09.540 Lavoie was on the ground in London, so she's got the reports for you. And then a hearty

00:00:14.220 conversation with our friend Lauren Gunter about Mark Carney's visit to Alberta and

00:00:18.440 what the pipeline MOU means and doesn't mean. And I got a funny clip for you from Monty

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00:01:28.240 Now, let's get into it. 0.95

00:01:29.480 tonight alexa lavoie lands in london where she's allowed to travel but i'm banned plus

00:01:49.720 mark carney goes to alberta with a bunch of nothing it's may 15th and this is the ezra

00:01:54.880 LeVant Show. Shame on you, you sensorism bug. Oh, hi, everybody. It is afternoon on Friday.

00:02:14.880 Normally, I would be getting ready to get on a plane tonight, flying to London, England,

00:02:19.080 But I haven't heard back from the Home Office.

00:02:22.460 As you saw yesterday, I have been banned from going into that country,

00:02:26.480 which I visited a couple dozen times over the last 10 years.

00:02:30.520 And the reason was so vague.

00:02:32.180 It was not in the public interest.

00:02:34.440 Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, did a rant today.

00:02:38.380 He said, far-right agitators and extremists are not allowed in.

00:02:42.400 Here he is just smearing anyone who's even just a gentle critic of himself.

00:02:46.920 Take a look.

00:02:47.780 Tomorrow's march in London is a reminder of what we're up against in the battle of our values.

00:02:53.980 The organisers, including convicted thugs and racists, are peddling hatred and division, plain and simple.

00:03:03.780 Their goal is to convince people that Britain's problems are caused by those living alongside them.

00:03:10.320 But that is not the Britain that I know.

00:03:12.920 This is a country built on decency, fairness and respect.

00:03:17.920 A country that is at its best when people from different backgrounds come together in common purpose.

00:03:24.920 This is our country, with a majority who share those values.

00:03:28.920 A majority who may not always be as loud, but must always define who we are.

00:03:33.920 So, my government will not stand in the way of peaceful protest.

00:03:38.920 But we will act decisively against hatred.

00:03:41.920 We will use the full force of the law when that hatred manifests as violence.

00:03:47.440 And we will ban those coming into the UK who seek to stir it up, as we have done already.

00:03:54.660 Because this country belongs to all of us.

00:03:58.840 And I will not tolerate anyone who seeks to stand in the way of that.

00:04:03.800 It's just crazy.

00:04:04.880 he's trying to create a kind of moment maybe a january 6th style moment with tomorrow's big

00:04:10.720 rally that tommy robinson is holding he had a crisis meeting with the police and immediately

00:04:15.520 thereafter the police changed their rules here's him meeting with police and showing everyone that

00:04:20.960 he was why are you meeting with police he's not the top of their chain of command police are

00:04:26.160 supposed to be neutral non-partisan here's tommy robinson letting us know what did happen when keir

00:04:32.560 Here Starmer was done meeting police.

00:04:34.460 Take a look.

00:04:35.400 We have worked tirelessly with the police

00:04:37.060 and the agreement that we finish at six o'clock.

00:04:39.140 So we have scheduled singers, speakers,

00:04:41.020 everything scheduled to the minute.

00:04:42.620 And then after Starmer's meeting this morning,

00:04:44.600 they've changed it all.

00:04:45.780 They've knocked 30 minutes off,

00:04:47.240 which devails all of the speakers,

00:04:49.580 the sequence, who's meant to speak,

00:04:51.160 when they're meant to speak, the finishing time.

00:04:53.560 That's what they've done.

00:04:54.300 That's what they've done to try and derail it.

00:04:56.420 So we're working a way to try and sort that now

00:04:58.420 of how we can do it other than cutting people out,

00:05:01.020 singers, songers of what we've agreed for months. We've got the recordings of the meetings with the

00:05:04.840 police. Agreed for months. They have a meeting with Keir Starmer this morning, Sadiq Khan,

00:05:08.480 they've gone back on everything. That's what he's tried to do is derail the day. But he won't be

00:05:13.220 successful. So we're not going to get angry about it. We're going to, when you face an obstacle,

00:05:16.640 you get around it, which is what we're going to do. Yeah, I think that Keir Starmer, who's just

00:05:21.360 crumbling in his public support, thinks he can whip up some crisis that he manufactures and have

00:05:27.900 some, I don't know, God forbid, violent outcome and then puts him back on the map or something.

00:05:34.200 I don't know. I think it's going to fail. But the problem is I'm not allowed to go there to

00:05:38.500 report on it because they're just lashing out at everyone. I'm pleased to say that the free speech

00:05:43.340 union in the UK has taken up my case. Here's a press release they put out. They think it's

00:05:49.360 unacceptable. And they point out in their press release that I happen to be a supporter of Israel

00:05:54.700 and they wonder, and I didn't say this to them at all.

00:05:57.740 I didn't even think of this.

00:05:59.200 They thought that that could be the reason

00:06:01.320 why I was kept out

00:06:03.160 because they have a very strong policy on pro-Hamas

00:06:06.180 in the labor government.

00:06:07.580 I don't know.

00:06:07.960 Anyways, I'm glad to have some legal support out there 0.51

00:06:10.780 and I'm delighted that Alexa Lavoie is there.

00:06:14.340 I wanna show you some of Alexa's work.

00:06:17.580 She's been there.

00:06:18.240 I encouraged her to go a couple of days early

00:06:20.460 and not to pop up with any videos

00:06:22.660 letting the world know she was there

00:06:24.140 until she was through customs and border police.

00:06:27.020 Anyway, she's been doing some great work here.

00:06:29.040 Take a look at this.

00:06:30.180 Here's some of Alexa's work in the UK today.

00:06:35.440 It's one of those things I do believe absolutely in free speech.

00:06:39.380 But like I say, there are consequences to free speech.

00:06:43.780 You should have the free speech, but you're not immune from consequences.

00:06:47.000 They're not entitled to have a visa.

00:06:48.940 This is nothing less than a battle for the soul of our nation.

00:06:54.600 Do you see a double standard to let the boat arriving but denying access to people who don't have any criminal charges or criminal...

00:07:03.060 Tommy Robinson's had a few criminal charges, actually.

00:07:05.560 No, but the speaker from other countries doesn't have it.

00:07:09.240 Maybe not, but if they're backing Tommy Robinson, then they're extreme right wing.

00:07:15.600 I'm in. I'm here in London, England.

00:07:19.980 And in just a few days, Tommy Robinson is set to hold his massive United Kingdom rally.

00:07:28.360 And apparently, that has Keir Starmer's government terrified.

00:07:33.640 In the lead-up to this event, the UK government has started cancelling visas

00:07:40.320 and blocking entry for commentators, activists, journalists and even politicians connected to Tommy Robinson's rally.

00:07:50.260 And you'll see it again on Saturday at a march designed to confront and intimidate this diverse city and this diverse country.

00:08:00.440 That is why this Labour government will block far-right agitators from travelling to Britain for that event.

00:08:05.820 Because we will not allow people to come to the UK to strengthen our communities and spread hate on our streets.

00:08:12.880 My colleague, Avi Yimini, wasn't even planning to come.

00:08:18.380 Yet, he still received an email from the UK government revoking a visa he had applied for more than a year ago.

00:08:28.920 claiming his presence in the UK was not conducive to the public good.

00:08:35.800 But what exactly is conducive to the public good under Kiev's armour?

00:08:42.600 Are boats filled with illegal migrants conducive to the public good?

00:08:48.900 Are radical Islamist preachers conducive to the safety of British communities?

00:08:55.200 or the grooming gangs he once tried to shield are?

00:09:01.400 This socialist government has become a world leader

00:09:05.200 in arresting people over nonviolent online speech

00:09:08.840 far ahead of countries like Russia and China.

00:09:13.960 Starmer knows he can't stop Tommy Robinson's supporters

00:09:18.180 through the court because the law is not on his side.

00:09:23.760 So instead, his government is using executive powers to deny people entry into this country.

00:09:31.260 This is not democracy. This is political censorship.

00:09:35.440 Keir Starmer refuses debate. He refuses criticism.

00:09:40.300 And he refuses to take responsibility for the failed policies that have left so many people in this country feeling abandoned.

00:09:50.100 Following these visa cancellations, Ben Habib, chairman of the advocacy group Great British, wrote to Stormer's government warning that Britain has historically distinguished itself from authoritarian systems precisely because it has defended the principle that controversial speech is answered.

00:10:20.100 by debate he also wrote that the british public is increasingly concerned that the term far right

00:10:29.940 is now being deployed indiscriminately against conservatives nationalists immigration critics

00:10:38.260 cultural traditionalists and political dissenters generally in his letter habib is demanding that

00:10:47.540 the government released the information used to justify these entry bans explained under which

00:10:54.820 legal authority they act and answered for what appears to be a politically motivated crackdown

00:11:03.860 but i made it in i was able to fly under the radar and i'm here because the truth needs to be shown

00:11:13.220 now more than ever.

00:11:16.220 These people are not far-right agitators.

00:11:20.220 They are working-class citizens

00:11:22.220 who are tired of being ignored, censored, and demonized

00:11:28.220 for speaking out against open borders,

00:11:31.220 mass immigration, and a socialist government

00:11:34.220 that has failed them.

00:11:37.220 I'm just here really basically asking people

00:11:40.220 people. What do you think about your government and Keir Starmer? Do you think they are great?

00:11:44.660 Do you think the... Omni shambles. That's the one word you need. Omni shambles. We had

00:11:49.420 omni shambles with the Tories. We've got omni shambles with Labour. Which is why reform has

00:11:53.980 done so well, because it's just a knee-jerk reaction to the others. I think he... I think

00:12:00.940 he's a coward, you know, and he really should prescribe the IRGC and do more to combat as 0.97

00:12:10.200 islamic extremism and anti-semitism you know it's he's like sadiq khan in a way he's totally 0.98

00:12:18.380 incompetent he doesn't really have any real passion well i've never thought much about him

00:12:24.100 i've never thought he was very good um but i'm not sure there's anyone to replace him at the moment

00:12:30.880 so I wouldn't necessarily want him to go.

00:12:36.300 I think he's a bit sort of plain, boring, nothing really too dramatic.

00:12:42.760 He's clearly lost the support of his backbenchers, or many of them,

00:12:46.880 and very clearly the country is unhappy with him.

00:12:49.160 That's how you read the elections.

00:12:50.960 I think he's not trying hard enough.

00:12:54.160 He owes too many people favours that now he's in a position of power,

00:12:57.380 he can't do what he wants to do.

00:12:59.080 He's the best of a bad bunch.

00:13:00.300 It's your government, Keir Starmer, denying access to some people who were attending Tommy

00:13:07.480 Robinson's rally to speak.

00:13:10.140 And I'm asking the people if they see any concern about free speech in this country.

00:13:14.300 Yes, I think so.

00:13:15.300 Definitely.

00:13:16.300 Yeah.

00:13:17.300 Some people get free speech and some don't, which is an effort.

00:13:20.620 I actually think you should be able to say just about anything, so I'm a free speech

00:13:25.300 fan.

00:13:26.300 fan i mean it should be you know it's the same as the whole idea that they've got in the in the in

00:13:31.020 the states about the free speech amendment everybody has the right or should have the

00:13:35.020 right to free speech you don't have the right to be exempt from the consequences of free speech but

00:13:40.460 free speech should be an absolute right otherwise we're no better than north korea or russia i think

00:13:46.060 it's very hypocritical because there's people coming over on the boats illegally he's not doing

00:13:53.580 much to stop that. He's no deporting people who are extremists and Islamic fundamentalists 0.97

00:14:01.120 that really should be deported. And it's just part of Keir Starmer's clampdown on free speech

00:14:07.860 and free speech in the United Kingdom is one of our tenants of democracy and it should

00:14:13.980 be respected. So you mean denying fascists the right to speak? Well, I think that's a

00:14:19.760 good thing. Do you think it's a good thing? Yeah. Why do you want fascists on the street?

00:14:25.180 I think it's a pretty common tendency here, to be honest. It's not really anything that's

00:14:29.740 particularly new. I mean, it's a left-wing government, somewhat left-wing government,

00:14:34.440 and people here aren't really fond of Tommy Robinson. I can see why people would say it's

00:14:40.580 a free speech issue there, but I'm simply just not surprised. I think the vast majority of people

00:14:45.240 in this country are tolerant and they do not follow the policies that perhaps more right-wing

00:14:50.840 and less tolerant people do that might answer the question that's basically i thought we live in a

00:14:56.280 democracy where you can come and do and protest obviously not because they're picking and choosing

00:15:00.680 it's like saying we don't want him to come because it's going to be this the canya west situation

00:15:04.120 with the wireless i know there's reasons behind it but you're just picking and choosing who you

00:15:08.120 you want that's not democracy. Did you sign the erosion of free speech in this country? Yes.

00:15:14.360 How? Universities not allowing the debate of things and I think universities should be able

00:15:22.040 to debate anything within a safe kind of environment things yeah things not being

00:15:27.800 allowed to be said not being allowed to be explored and that happened in the early noughties

00:15:33.480 and has continued on that's my view as a very old person yeah i think the the problem is we're

00:15:41.000 getting less and less um critical thinking because people are shut down if they don't agree with

00:15:48.840 that person's particular political persuasion you need to find out about what's going on with

00:15:55.400 people who don't think the way that you do and understand what their reasons are because

00:16:00.040 you can't improve things for everybody unless everybody has a voice

00:16:04.440 and they're trying to be very selective about who has a voice which is

00:16:07.800 one of the reasons we're in the mess we're in i think across the western world

00:16:14.600 for the abbey i promise you i'm trying to get you my id

00:16:18.920 i work for the press office for the press office do you believe in free speech

00:16:23.800 yes i'm not going to get into a competition about that do you believe in free speech

00:16:27.000 Um, there are rules for filming on our property, so you need to get in touch with us to do that.

00:16:31.640 You see that hair from there filming?

00:16:33.000 That I just showed you there.

00:16:34.200 You're waiting for her. 1.00

00:16:35.200 That woman there, I've got a phone in there.

00:16:36.800 I don't see the woman there.

00:16:38.000 Okay, the woman there having a phone, taking a picture of her filming.

00:16:40.600 But I can see here that you are an actual news variant.

00:16:44.200 Oh, so you have a problem with the actual news, not with...

00:16:46.400 So anyone random can film.

00:16:47.600 No, no, but you're an endorsed...

00:16:50.200 I'm glad you said that. We're endorsed.

00:16:52.200 Please. Thank you for the endorsement.

00:16:53.800 Are you the gatekeeper of the media?

00:16:55.200 I will have to go get security.

00:16:56.600 Go get security, go get security.

00:16:58.640 Thank you very much, right, let's go.

00:17:00.480 Okay, what was that?

00:17:01.880 That was someone who doesn't like us talking

00:17:03.680 and they don't like us talking

00:17:04.680 because they don't want us to have an opinion 0.99

00:17:06.280 and it's tough shit 0.98

00:17:07.280 because we've got a very strong opinion. 0.99

00:17:09.240 Welcome to the UK, the land of no freedom.

00:17:12.880 And the land of censorship as well.

00:17:16.220 I can't wait for the security to come, can you?

00:17:17.820 Are you waiting for the security to come?

00:17:18.960 I can't wait, go on.

00:17:20.660 What would you say to the security?

00:17:22.060 I'll point out all the other people filming

00:17:23.500 and ask them what the problem is.

00:17:24.820 Right, here it comes.

00:17:26.320 And we are in the sidewalk.

00:17:28.280 What's the name?

00:17:29.040 Can't film it.

00:17:29.720 Who can't?

00:17:30.240 It's private property.

00:17:31.160 How come they're all filming?

00:17:32.560 It's private property.

00:17:33.760 I'll ask the question, how come they're all filming?

00:17:35.200 It's a private property, sir.

00:17:36.400 OK.

00:17:36.880 OK.

00:17:37.360 How come they're all filming?

00:17:38.600 You can, with the phone here, you can't film it.

00:17:41.200 So if I change this to a phone, I'll go.

00:17:42.560 Excuse me, sir.

00:17:43.760 I'm telling you again, you can't film in here.

00:17:45.920 How come they're all filming?

00:17:46.960 I'm telling you.

00:17:48.040 I'm just me, not the rest of the people.

00:17:49.480 They can film.

00:17:49.840 I'm telling you, you can't film in here.

00:17:51.440 You can film with that.

00:17:52.560 I can film with this?

00:17:53.320 Yeah.

00:17:53.960 OK.

00:17:54.360 I'm not professional in the camera, please.

00:17:56.360 Are you kidding?

00:17:58.360 Excuse me, hello.

00:18:00.360 Like, what are you doing?

00:18:02.360 Excuse me, hello.

00:18:04.360 Excuse me, don't touch that.

00:18:06.360 Don't touch my camera.

00:18:08.360 Did you really put your hand in my lens?

00:18:14.360 Did you put your hand in my lens?

00:18:18.360 Arrested for what? Filming?

00:18:20.360 Arrested for filming.

00:18:22.360 That's Britain, 2026. Go get the police, mate. Go get the police, go get the police.

00:18:26.040 Can you... Can you... Can you...

00:18:27.680 Officer, go get the police, mate. Let's carry on our interview. Let's just finish our interview, go.

00:18:31.120 Come on, what were you saying?

00:18:32.080 Peter.

00:18:33.080 He's gonna get arrested for filming the pandemic.

00:18:34.800 Yeah, let's go.

00:18:35.800 Why are you shaking? Why are you jumping?

00:18:37.840 Go, go on, wait.

00:18:39.200 Why are you jumping?

00:18:40.000 Go on, wait. Why are you jumping?

00:18:41.040 Go on, wait.

00:18:42.480 Why are you jumping?

00:18:43.480 It's... It's a sidewalk.

00:18:44.640 You can't film.

00:18:45.440 It's a sidewalk.

00:18:46.200 You can't film.

00:18:46.840 Go speak to them.

00:18:47.640 He's growing at nothing.

00:18:48.640 Go speak to them.

00:18:49.960 Sorry, what's going on?

00:18:50.880 Hello. Hello, mate. How are you? How are you doing? You all right?

00:18:54.040 So basically, go away.

00:18:55.960 So basically, everyone's filming. This gentleman, that gentleman, that gentleman.

00:19:00.120 She's filming. Everyone's filming.

00:19:02.880 But for some reason, aggressively, this girl puts her hand on her camera.

00:19:06.800 This gentleman, I don't know who he is, thinks he's in charge of the police or something.

00:19:11.120 This gentleman's come over. You can't film. You can't film.

00:19:13.400 So tell everyone else they can't film. We'll do the same as everyone else.

00:19:16.520 If no one can film, no one can film.

00:19:18.800 Professional film.

00:19:19.880 Professional? What makes it professional?

00:19:21.880 So, if you're still taking a professional job, if you're not taking a job...

00:19:26.780 Who decides what's professional?

00:19:29.580 The Press Department.

00:19:30.580 Okay, get the Press Department.

00:19:31.480 This is owned by the Abbey and the Press Department.

00:19:34.780 Okay.

00:19:35.780 So, if we've just come here to this building for an interview,

00:19:40.080 we're not allowed to finish our interview walking out of steps?

00:19:42.580 Is that what you're saying?

00:19:43.480 But everyone else is?

00:19:44.080 No, no. You shouldn't have started your interview without talking to the Press Department.

00:19:48.880 What do you write?

00:19:49.380 If you're in the Abbey land.

00:19:50.800 Okay, but everyone else is filming.

00:19:52.080 No, no, they're...

00:19:53.260 Right, they're taking shots of the Abbey.

00:19:55.280 Taking a photo of the Abbey.

00:19:56.420 So I'm standing with the Abbey in the background.

00:19:57.600 But if you're filming taking footage for, like...

00:20:03.640 You're not arguing.

00:20:04.720 You're not arguing.

00:20:05.760 Yeah, he is filming.

00:20:06.540 Of course he's filming.

00:20:08.180 Of course he's filming.

00:20:10.060 Sorry, mate.

00:20:10.680 If you're taking footage for, like, media stuff,

00:20:14.320 then you need to basically take to the Abbey's film.

00:20:16.940 Okay, but we're not doing it for media.

00:20:18.040 we're citizen journalists yeah we don't like the media right we're doing it but the thing is journalists

00:20:22.120 also have to do that bbc itn okay sorry no it's all right mate it's all right okay okay so where's

00:20:28.760 your property uh this this old ground so up until up until the lines all the way down

00:20:35.160 so you see that footpath there that footpath you can do anything you like thank you thank you mate 0.99

00:20:39.800 nice one come on go yeah oi you're not hard no you won't no you won't you silly man 0.98

00:20:45.320 What do you think of turning up? 0.98

00:20:47.320 Millions.

00:20:48.320 I hope so.

00:20:49.320 Good luck to you, my friend.

00:20:50.320 Thank you, man.

00:20:51.320 Thank you very much.

00:20:52.320 You're doing a great job.

00:20:53.320 Thank you.

00:20:54.320 Thank you very much.

00:20:59.320 That is good to have our footage.

00:21:01.320 Do you think?

00:21:02.320 Yeah, yes.

00:21:03.320 Sounds right.

00:21:04.320 Thank you.

00:21:05.320 Thank you.

00:21:06.320 Thank you very much.

00:21:08.320 Thank you very much.

00:21:10.320 If I said to my son-in-law,

00:21:12.320 I said to me,

00:21:13.320 I've seen them go down and see them in front of me.

00:21:15.320 Honestly.

00:21:16.320 Found us. Here we are.

00:21:18.320 That one there, really?

00:21:19.320 I've been a lot of you, yeah.

00:21:20.320 Really? You're better than I am.

00:21:21.320 I'll do it.

00:21:22.320 Are you jumping in?

00:21:23.320 No, come on, man.

00:21:25.320 I'll do it that way.

00:21:26.320 There you go.

00:21:27.320 Well done.

00:21:28.320 Thank you very much.

00:21:29.320 See you Saturday.

00:21:30.320 See you.

00:21:31.320 See you Saturday.

00:21:32.320 Alright.

00:21:33.320 Alright, mate. How are you?

00:21:35.320 Alright, listen.

00:21:36.320 I might have seemed a bit hostile to those people,

00:21:38.320 but you know people telling me where I can and can't film.

00:21:40.320 It's like, look, he's filming. Everyone's filming.

00:21:42.320 and now we're filming

00:21:44.000 one meter away

00:21:45.580 literally

00:21:46.300 what the point is that

00:21:48.080 welcome to England

00:21:49.400 yeah

00:21:50.260 so

00:21:51.380 I'm with Tommy Robinson

00:21:52.780 and we are two days

00:21:54.620 before the big rally

00:21:56.720 and I want to have your

00:21:58.720 thoughts

00:21:59.700 on what the UK government

00:22:01.400 have done

00:22:02.100 cancelling visas

00:22:03.700 of speakers

00:22:05.160 who were attending your rally

00:22:06.840 they've exposed themselves

00:22:07.820 they've not cancelled extremists

00:22:09.620 they're cancelling journalists

00:22:10.660 yeah

00:22:11.120 so they've exposed themselves they don't like people who have a different opinion from their

00:22:15.620 worldview or their mass open border dangerous immigration they've exposed what we have to live

00:22:21.200 with in britain you see they don't want journalists talking members european parliament multiple

00:22:25.320 members european parliament high ranking have now been refused entry into this country whilst

00:22:29.900 they're stopping journalists and they're stopping media or they're stopping politicians our borders 0.59

00:22:34.720 are open to rapists criminals jihadists our country and our government welcomed back a terrorist 1.00

00:22:39.960 who said all white people need to be killed. 1.00

00:22:42.740 They welcomed him back. 1.00

00:22:44.220 They brought him in. 1.00

00:22:44.980 He's not British.

00:22:45.780 He's from Egyptian or whatever.

00:22:47.200 But yet they're stopping journalists.

00:22:48.360 So they've just exposed themselves.

00:22:49.940 I know the letter that Dominic, the Polish gentleman,

00:22:52.500 our good friend, shared is on 7 million views.

00:22:56.140 The world can see what Britain thinks about free speech.

00:22:59.440 And this Saturday, the country's coming out.

00:23:03.620 Not in support of Keir Starmer.

00:23:04.980 Against him.

00:23:06.340 Go on, my ears.

00:23:07.900 What do you think about it?

00:23:08.800 What do you think?

00:23:09.960 I think you have a socialist government.

00:23:16.740 So they announced that they will deploy massive police enforcement.

00:23:23.300 They say that they are ready to arrest people for hate speech.

00:23:27.540 Same for the people who are seeing intifada.

00:23:30.940 Do you believe that they will really crack down on the other one?

00:23:34.200 We've had laws that could have been implemented

00:23:36.180 against all the extremist Hamas supporters for the last two years.

00:23:39.160 They've allowed them to call for jihad, made excuses for them. 0.54

00:23:41.620 They've allowed to call them for the murder of Christians and Jews.

00:23:43.920 They've allowed them to incite hate from one end of this country to the other, and they've done nothing. 0.82

00:23:47.100 In fact, real hate is being incited in mosques up and down this country. 0.90

00:23:50.000 No arrests, no dawn raids, no closing down the mosques. 0.93

00:23:52.580 By what they mean is they want to intimidate the British public into silence. 0.98

00:23:55.800 But that doesn't work anymore.

00:23:57.200 There's no hate speech.

00:23:58.160 There's just facts.

00:23:58.900 We speak facts and we speak truth.

00:24:00.400 And that's what we'll continue to do.

00:24:01.820 And we'll do it on Saturday with the biggest audience this country's ever seen.

00:24:04.840 Do you think he made a mistake by cancelling visas?

00:24:10.320 And you'll see it again on Saturday, at a march designed to confront and intimidate

00:24:16.240 this diverse city and this diverse country.

00:24:20.840 That is why this Labour government will block far-right agitators from travelling to Britain

00:24:24.920 for that event.

00:24:25.920 Because we will not allow people to come to the UK to threaten our communities and spread

00:24:31.240 hate on our streets.

00:24:32.240 He made a big mistake because he's exposed himself to the world.

00:24:35.460 And you see, Keir Starmer, you muppet, right?

00:24:38.940 There's such a thing now called the internet and actually Starlink, thanks to Elon Musk.

00:24:42.700 So the people you've banned, they'll be here with us.

00:24:46.880 Well, Alexa is going to be there on the ground tomorrow.

00:24:48.920 I'm sort of jealous.

00:24:49.700 I love covering these rallies, but I'll be there in spirit.

00:24:52.440 And hopefully we'll give Keir Starmer a metaphorical black eye.

00:24:56.320 I don't want anyone to think I'm calling for violence, which he is clearly hoping for.

00:25:00.240 By the way, in Alberta, a lot closer to home, Mark Carney and Danielle Smith had a meeting.

00:25:06.200 Next up, my interview with Lauren Gunter about how that went and are the feds playing with Alberta.

00:25:13.020 Take a look.

00:25:17.840 And today's agreement is also about creating a better world for our kids and our grandkids.

00:25:24.180 through major investments that will help put Canada on the path to net zero,

00:25:31.460 through a methane equivalency agreement that will lower methane emissions from oil and gas

00:25:35.880 by 75 percent below 2014 levels by 2035, and through carbon markets that work.

00:25:45.320 When we signed the MOU in November, an oversupply of credits had driven prices as low as $20 a ton,

00:25:50.820 $75 below the headline price. And today, as you've just heard, Canada and Alberta have agreed to

00:25:57.900 create markets that deliver an effective carbon price of $130 per ton by 2040 with binding annual

00:26:06.060 benchmarks along the way. We will also issue 75 million tons of carbon contracts for difference

00:26:13.360 to support major carbon capture, clean energy, other emission reduction projects with the cost

00:26:20.800 shared equally between us in other words we will have skin in the game so that that market actually

00:26:27.360 works you might be forgiven if watching that clip you don't understand that this was supposed to be

00:26:33.360 announcement this was touted as somehow a pro alberta pro oil patch announcement but as you

00:26:39.540 can see it was the exact opposite the prime minister triumphant announcing that no all of his

00:26:45.620 ideology ideologies his 20-year history of being an environmental extremist he meant it and even

00:26:53.220 though he has eliminated the retail carbon tax he is going to increase taxes on methane carbon

00:26:59.960 carbon markets decarbonized pipelines all of these things that no other oil producer in the world

00:27:08.120 does, that no oil buyer asks for. By the way, there's no such thing as decarbonized oil. That's

00:27:15.880 like saying dehydrated water. This was presented to Albertans today, and I'm baffled by the fact

00:27:24.240 that Danielle Smith, who I rather admire, regards this as some sort of a triumph. Joining me now to

00:27:29.900 talk about this is my friend who is writing for the Edmonton Journal, quite illuminating. I look

00:27:36.300 forward to hearing his thoughts on this lauren gunter joins us now from edmonton lauren you've

00:27:41.180 been covering the oil patch for 30 40 years i'd have to count um this does not feel like a win to

00:27:47.240 me no and if you look at the details it's more of a deal to make a deal if if alberta reaches several

00:27:57.020 important federal benchmarks then ottawa will consider fast tracking the approval of the

00:28:04.240 pipeline. Well, that's what we had before today's announcement. This really isn't all that big a

00:28:08.940 deal. And it's funny that Carney has said the carbon market in Alberta is broken because at

00:28:17.620 some point, carbon was only trading at $20 a ton. That's what a market's all about. If you don't

00:28:24.060 have enough people buying whatever you're selling, the price comes down. So now we have to create an

00:28:30.620 artificial market that will go up to $130 a ton by 2040. Considerably better than the $170 a ton

00:28:40.080 that Trudeau wanted to impose by 2035. But still, it's got to be a fake market because the actual

00:28:49.560 market was at $20 a ton. That's what people were prepared to pay. And so we're already looking at

00:28:58.380 lot of federal nonsense it's not a hocus pocus without government subsidies no one in the world

00:29:05.680 would quote buy carbon credits it's it's not a real thing i understand people buying soybeans

00:29:11.300 or buying canola or buying wood or buying eggs you buy things that you use that are tangible

00:29:17.300 a carbon credit isn't a thing it's it's enron style accounting and and all of the language

00:29:25.500 he used there that's the bad mark carney from before when he was with the glasgow financial

00:29:31.960 uh alliance for net zero like he pretended that he put that aside for about five minutes during

00:29:38.320 the election it's back um danielle smith seemed happy by this because the pain he's imposing is

00:29:45.860 less than the pain he was going to impose i'm sorry i don't consider that a win no i don't

00:29:50.860 consider a big win either and i look at carbon credits like the medieval practice of indulgences

00:29:57.940 if you knew you were going to go out and commit a sin you could donate a certain amount of money

00:30:03.380 to a priest or a bishop and that person would then in advance of your sin absolve you of your sin

00:30:10.540 and i think carbon credits are very much the same thing unless you have a government that's creating

00:30:16.220 an artificial market for them there is no market for them um i want to talk about real life for

00:30:23.400 one second uh they're talking about pipelines but i saw the other day the synovus boss say look

00:30:28.880 that's not happening we have so many crazy costs imposed on us that are not real world costs

00:30:34.840 and if you're going to put all these carbon costs on us that's just going straight to the

00:30:38.820 straight to our costs no it's not improving our product we're not going to change what we do

00:30:44.580 We're not changing how we produce.

00:30:46.380 Let me play a clip of the Cenobus boss saying this.

00:30:48.820 I think this clip is from the Globe and Mail.

00:30:50.840 It was the first real talk I've ever heard about the fact that you can pay all these indulgences,

00:30:56.380 but it literally does not change what these companies do.

00:31:00.360 Here, take a look.

00:31:00.860 We're the only country among the 10 largest producers globally that has a carbon tax.

00:31:07.180 And the carbon tax for our industry is nothing more than a cost.

00:31:11.400 It doesn't incent us to decarbonize.

00:31:14.820 It is solely a cost of doing business.

00:31:18.600 So when you think about what we intended to do with the carbon tax is it really works when it's globally applied and that can be passed on to the consumer.

00:31:27.260 The consumer sees the higher cost of the product that they're consuming and they consume less of it and you get the price signal going back to the producer who produces less.

00:31:36.900 what we've done is we've put a carbon tax on in Canada

00:31:41.320 that is solely born in Canada

00:31:43.640 and we compete in the global market

00:31:45.620 so the products that we sell get a global price

00:31:49.500 so we're not able to pass that along to the consumers

00:31:52.260 there's a breakage of the linkage

00:31:54.600 in terms of what the policy was intended to do

00:31:58.540 and what it actually does

00:31:59.800 so it's simply a cost of doing business

00:32:01.760 that has to be incorporated into any investment decision

00:32:05.160 But we have that, plus we have the tanker ban, plus we have clean electricity regulations, plus we have methane regulations.

00:32:13.200 And all of this is just combined to make an incredibly complicated policy framework that makes investments in Canada difficult and non-competitive with other countries like the U.S. and countries in Asia.

00:32:27.420 That's the first grown-up I've heard talking about these things almost ever.

00:32:31.760 I mean, if you're selling Canadian oil abroad, no one cares about how you, about any of that.

00:32:40.240 Countries that are buying oil from, let's say, Iran, they don't care about carbon. 0.91

00:32:44.600 They just are so desperate for oil they'll buy from the world's terrorists. 0.98

00:32:48.840 I think that's the first real talk.

00:32:50.840 But instead of this sort of baffle gab, fake language about credits and markets, that's not real.

00:32:57.280 What that guy just said there is the realest real I've ever heard.

00:33:00.260 Yeah, I know. And he is, or his company, Synovus, is part of the Pathways Alliance, which is supposed to be building this carbon capture network that could cost up to $20 billion so that they can capture carbon from the exploration and extraction of oil and oil sands.

00:33:21.280 and uh thereby we can go to the world and say see our our oil is so clean you'll you'll want

00:33:28.240 to buy from us at a premium because then you'll feel morally better about the purchase and as you

00:33:33.940 said nobody cares about that that even even the western countries that might buy oil from us

00:33:41.640 japan for instance they don't care about that they care about what the price is and the price

00:33:46.840 is too high if you start adding all that stuff to it at one point i must be about a year ago now

00:33:52.600 carney said well we'll have a much better chance to break into markets if we have clean oil because

00:33:59.940 people like the europeans will want to buy from us enough no they won't they want to buy from

00:34:06.500 whoever's selling the cheapest oil yeah right now they're buying from vladimir putin they're buying

00:34:11.180 conflict oil and conflict gas so if you're willing to buy from the guy that they say they all hate

00:34:17.160 him and i believe that but they have literally spent more money on energy from russia than they

00:34:22.080 have given to uh ukraine in foreign aid they have funded russia more than than they have funded

00:34:28.980 ukraine because they buy conflict energy yeah no no no doubt about it and that's not going to change

00:34:37.520 You know, we are hoping that if we put a new pipeline, a million barrels a day out to the West Coast, that we're going to find all sorts of new Asian clients, Indonesia, China, Japan, lots of other countries over that way, Vietnam, will be potential customers of ours.

00:34:58.260 They're not going to pay an extra 20% to Canada just so that we can feel as though, you know, we've made Greta Thunberg more comfortable.

00:35:06.960 it's ridiculous it really is you mentioned the 20 billion dollars just for this fake industry of

00:35:14.760 capturing carbon by the way i'm emitting carbon talking to you right now i apologize and earlier

00:35:19.940 today i emitted a little methane don't tell anybody but uh my point is that these are naturally

00:35:24.740 occurring elements it's rather insane to try and regulate them by the way in the netherlands

00:35:28.900 here builders tells me they were trying to regulate nitrogen let's just go through the whole

00:35:32.740 periodic table of the elements is wacky but you mentioned 20 billion dollars um just super quick

00:35:38.960 math if there's a roughly five million albertans rough so that works out to four thousand dollars

00:35:45.760 per person let's say the average family is i don't know three people four people in the average

00:35:50.420 family so that's 15 grand let's say per family so because of ottawa's bizarre fetish and their 0.67

00:35:59.560 hatred of the west fifteen thousand dollars that could go per family to whatever is going for some

00:36:06.880 scheme that you know liberal lobbyists are up to their eyeballs in anyways that's super gross to

00:36:11.360 me i once wrote that you know a thousand years from now some uh anthropologist is going to stand

00:36:17.560 up at a conference and try to explain carbon capture to his or her colleagues and they're 0.92

00:36:23.320 all going to start to howl and say uh ed you're nuts you're trying to tell us that they took air

00:36:28.380 and stuck it in the ground for some reason or try to make cows not fart exactly by the way that's 0.95

00:36:34.600 basically all we're talking about and um and i don't care how big the super el nino is going to

00:36:42.220 be this summer uh i saw a story about a week ago that there was another super el nino in 1877 but

00:36:51.060 you can bet they'll blame this one yeah on on global warming and climate change but how do you

00:36:56.760 explain the one in 1877 i mean this just happens every once in a while in weather most of our

00:37:02.740 weather just happens every once in a while and you can capture all the carbon you want and shove

00:37:08.100 it into caves below coal lake alberta you're not going to accomplish a thing yeah it's almost as

00:37:13.620 if um mark carney is doing something that might benefit his dear friends in communist china who

00:37:19.860 are building you know two or three new coal fire plant plants every week hey um here's the point

00:37:25.180 about this mou and that just a reminder that stands for memorandum of understanding and

00:37:29.240 lauren i think you're right to say it's almost like a agreement to have an agreement it's not

00:37:33.220 an agreement it's not a contract it's sort of vague principles that together maybe something

00:37:38.080 will happen what's missing is i mean we showed john mckenzie the boss of synovus who's talking

00:37:44.080 real talk what's missing is an oil man willing to say all right i'll ship a half a million barrels

00:37:51.760 a day in the pipeline and i can commit to spend x amount of money to get this thing built that's

00:37:57.200 often how pipelines are done they go out and sort of canvas different producers and say we're going

00:38:01.780 to build a pipeline how much of it do you want we're going to put you down for this percent that

00:38:06.560 percent and together we'll make this thing work because the pipelines are often for a variety of

00:38:11.380 customers that's how it works no one has come forward and it made me think of that old monty

00:38:15.880 Python sketch. Let me play just one minute for you, Lauren, because there's someone missing

00:38:22.020 in this conversation about pipelines, and maybe Monty Python can help us remember. Take a look

00:38:28.020 at this. You'll get a little chuckle. It's a bit of a bear in it there, isn't it? Yes.

00:38:35.700 Yes. More apparatus, please, nurse. The EEG, the BP monitor, and the AVV. And get the machine that

00:38:43.460 and get the most expensive machines in case the administrator comes.

00:39:01.460 Golly good. That's better. That's much, much better.

00:39:04.460 Yeah. More like it.

00:39:06.460 Er, still something missing, though.

00:39:10.460 Hmm? Hmm.

00:39:13.460 oh that's right just missing one thing who the patient so who are we missing with all this talk

00:39:22.780 about oil well a single proponent who would say yeah i i really think this is worth putting five

00:39:31.440 ten billion dollars into as opposed to going to venezuela i personally know an oil man for a

00:39:37.040 multi-billion dollar company in calgary who is in venezuela doing deals because it is a lower risk

00:39:43.020 adjusted rate of return in venezuela than alberta oh we've got all the machines that go beep but we

00:39:50.160 don't have a customer lauren exactly and you know you might find six or ten oil companies that are

00:39:58.040 prepared to jump in if this is guaranteed but there's a section in this new agreement that

00:40:04.480 was signed today i think it's 4.1.4 that says basically if the federal government is

00:40:11.860 pleased with all the consultation the Alberta government does with First Nations. And if

00:40:18.140 private backers can be found, then we'll think about accelerating the approval rate,

00:40:24.580 the approval process to September 1, 2027. Well, that's an awful lot of ifs. Yeah. Because they've

00:40:30.820 already, the Assembly of First Nations, the West Coast First Nations, a lot of other organizations

00:40:36.220 between Alberta and the BC coast first nations have said no we're not going to sign off on this

00:40:43.100 doesn't matter you know I think you can I think you can deal with the Alberta first nations who

00:40:48.340 have shown themselves to have some entrepreneurial smarts and and for a share of the pie they will

00:40:54.900 they will give their approval but in BC they play games all the time you might remember with

00:41:01.400 the coastal gas link pipeline that was taking uh gas from the northeastern uh bc fields out to the

00:41:09.260 coast that there was one group of three reserves that had elected chiefs elected councils and

00:41:18.880 inherit and hereditary right i remember and the elected chiefs and councils all favored the pipeline

00:41:26.440 but the feds went out and found the hereditary chiefs most of whom weren't like ancient old

00:41:33.360 first nations people uh most of them were sort of ceremonial in their in their positions and those

00:41:40.880 unelected hereditary chiefs said no and so the feds said well we can't we can't we can't

00:41:48.480 go against them uh the first nations have said no what's it going to take for alberta

00:41:55.300 to get through that kind of mess, especially now in BC with DRIPA, the Declaration of Rights of

00:42:03.780 Indigenous Peoples Act, which is basically what has been used to take away private property in

00:42:10.780 Richmond, BC. It's been used to kill mega projects in the rest of the project. BC is a real mess

00:42:19.840 right now i can see why nutrient the the big fertilizer maker in saskatchewan decided to put

00:42:26.020 their port yeah in washington state because they get away from all of that hooey with eb the premier

00:42:35.680 and all the first nations in bc well i mean we just saw a couple days ago um a trudeau appointed

00:42:41.800 judge in alberta say oh sorry 300 000 people petition to ask for a referendum question i have

00:42:49.540 discovered a new indigenous right to be consulted before petitions can be just making it up yeah

00:42:57.780 and slaughtering the democratic will not just of the 300 000 who signed that petition but 400 000

00:43:04.280 signed a counter petition oh but but a judge said no no no we're gonna in the name of indigenous

00:43:09.860 and if you oppose this court ruling of course you're racist um yeah i wouldn't trust that i

00:43:15.860 By the way, I asked, I had an interview a couple months ago with the ambassador from the United States, Pete Hoekstra, and I asked him, would you be open to a pipeline going through America?

00:43:26.480 And he said, of course. Here's a clip of that.

00:43:29.780 Number one is the, you know, very positive statement about Alberta, but I think it's how Americans generally feel about Canada.

00:43:39.960 OK, you could get us saying lots of positive things about lots of of the provinces in the how we've developed our ecosystems together.

00:43:50.460 I know that Besant, Secretary of Rights, Secretary Burgum, President Trump, you know, it's kind of like, yeah, pump a bunch, put a pipeline down to the border.

00:44:04.440 Our responsibility then to put pipelines on our side of the border that will take whatever oil Canada decides that they want to ship to the United States.

00:44:15.300 And the, you know, again, there's lots of uses that we would have for it.

00:44:20.320 in terms of processing it and those kinds of things.

00:44:22.860 We want more oil.

00:44:27.940 If Alberta wanted us to build a pipeline to the West Coast

00:44:34.160 because they said, hey, we want, you know,

00:44:36.760 we've got another 2 million barrels of oil per day

00:44:39.420 that we want to ship to Asia and Japan,

00:44:42.560 I would think that we'd be very open to having that discussion.

00:44:45.600 Yeah, I mean, by the way, I think that all of this stuff,

00:44:49.160 and i mean i i think you and i disagree on on independence lauren but i think this stuff

00:44:54.720 shows the frustrations and the pointlessness of dealing within the system if the best the system

00:45:00.060 can do is a hundred caveats on a vague mou and anytime something gets done a radical judge

00:45:07.200 overturns it um yeah i don't know how independence could be any more chaotic one of the things jason

00:45:12.540 kenny always says is independence would be chaotic really more chaotic than the judges we're seeing

00:45:18.420 more chaotic than a prime minister with his vague carbon demands one of the points i made after

00:45:25.080 that judge determined that there was this newfound right for of first nations to be consulted in

00:45:33.540 advance yeah like who gets to be consulted in advance of a law passing or a referendum now

00:45:39.600 nobody gets but i said okay so that's section 35 of the charter section 15 says you have to

00:45:47.520 give equal consideration to race gender uh sex there's a whole disability there's a whole list

00:45:56.900 of of uh minority issues that you have to give equal consideration now is government going to

00:46:05.260 have to go before it makes any laws and ask women and black people and you know the disabled whether 0.94

00:46:15.020 that's okay with them yeah yeah what happens to democracy when that happens yeah i think you're 0.91

00:46:19.760 right hey i got one last question for you know i really like danielle smith and there's a lot of

00:46:24.000 things i like about her including the fact that she came into politics i mean she really started 1.00

00:46:28.240 with a top job uh i mean she she had a history with the wild rose party but she came in she

00:46:33.480 colonized the ucp party and she's running i think she's done a fairly good job but this is a real

00:46:39.040 pickle for her because she wants to do a deal with mark carney and i think that's the right

00:46:44.200 thing to want um but i and i'm not going to say she was bamboozled here but boy she's showing a

00:46:51.040 lot of enthusiasm for something that is not a win and i don't know do you think she's getting

00:46:56.120 played by mark carney there's always that chance when you're working with the feds that you're

00:47:02.200 being played i mean the last time i know we weren't being played was back in the 70s when

00:47:09.200 And Lougheed put together a cabinet that was full of experts who knew how to play back when the Fed started.

00:47:16.140 But at the end, in the end of all of that, he still clinked champagne glasses with Pierre Trudeau over the National Energy Program.

00:47:23.760 So is she being played? Probably. Is she being too optimistic? Definitely.

00:47:32.920 Yeah. Well, I think I mean, listen, I really like her and I've been friends with her since the university, by the way.

00:47:38.140 but um she's in a very precarious time because on the one hand uh it looks like the courts are

00:47:43.940 going to derail a referendum that hundreds of thousands of albertans have said that said they

00:47:47.020 wanted and on the other hand she's being exuberant over a nothing mou i think she has to be careful

00:47:54.000 because you got 7 000 petition canvassers who are all revved up looking for something to do

00:47:59.680 and and i think that she needs to direct them at an external bad guy namely mark carney because if

00:48:06.900 she says no carny good judge good referendum bad i do not want i mean there's a there's really a

00:48:13.800 curse of alberta premiers they're all thrown out after one term and she has to be very very careful

00:48:18.580 when she does that too because if her actions lead to the creation of another party how does

00:48:27.100 it sound premier in the head nenshi yeah well that's the only way the ndp will win is if there's

00:48:33.060 two parties on the right yeah i think she can handle it i i honestly don't know who her key

00:48:38.460 advisors are on these matters i think she's done a pretty good job of navigating them but today i

00:48:43.440 think was sort of a gross announcement by carney and i think it was too friendly received lawrence

00:48:48.400 great to catch up with you what are you writing about in the edmonton journal these days

00:48:51.420 mostly about this yeah yeah i mean the judges decisions and these mous there's not much else

00:48:58.660 that interests readers right at the moment yeah well we'll keep an eye on that thanks very much

00:49:01.980 for giving us your time you bet there he is loren gunter senior columnist for the edmonton journal

00:49:06.860 stay with us your letters next

00:49:09.140 hey welcome back your letters to me about alexa touching down in london john ml says genuinely

00:49:24.780 impressed harr starmer didn't ban rebel news either well he did ban me and he banned avi

00:49:30.260 Amini. I guess he doesn't really know our whole organizational chart. I did say to Alexa, keep a

00:49:36.720 low profile till you're across the border. I guess that she wasn't on their hit list. Mark M says,

00:49:42.920 thanks for showing the world what's happening in our country. I bet Starmer will be kicking his cat

00:49:46.660 all around Downing Street after watching this. I think everything's, the walls are closing in,

00:49:51.800 as they say. I mean, about a hundred of his own MPs, including many cabinet ministers,

00:49:56.440 have called on him to step down he just got slaughtered in local council elections everyone

00:50:01.340 knows that will happen in the next election too i think he's actually the least popular

00:50:05.900 prime minister in the history of uk polling so everything's he's just burning the place down

00:50:11.560 as he goes down to wayland says i got banned from the uk writing this

00:50:17.100 well i hope that's not true but it wouldn't shock me i mean remember the uk is the place

00:50:23.240 where, according to the Times of London, a very prestigious newspaper,

00:50:27.040 30 people a day are arrested or accosted by police

00:50:31.200 for what they put on social media.

00:50:32.860 That's such a staggeringly large number.

00:50:35.560 I hate to say it, but it's actually more than China or Russia

00:50:38.860 arrests per day for mean words.

00:50:41.900 I know that sounds crazy, and I'm not saying that the UK

00:50:45.040 is worse than China or Russia, but holy smokes, 0.73

00:50:47.800 by some measures, it looks like they're trying to be worse. 0.62

00:50:50.820 That's our show for the day.

00:50:51.760 until tomorrow when alexa's going to be on the ground boy it's going to be an interesting day

00:50:56.500 good night and keep fighting for freedom

Rebel News Podcast - May 16, 2026

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Alexa Lavoie reports from London while Free Speech Union challenges UK ban

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